The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center (LGBT) New York : Profile

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• DONATECONTACTSTATE EMPLOYEES VIA UNITED WAYLEGACY GIFTSPARTNER-IN-PRIDEDONATEVOLUNTEERBUSINESS ALLIANCEPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTWEEKLY GROUPSCOUNSELING + CASE MANAGEMENTPROGRAMSRESOURCESCALENDARIN THE PRESSPRIDE CENTER BY THE NUMBERSBOARD OF DIRECTORSPRI CENTER STAFFABOUTHOME© 2023 PRI CENTER OF THE CAPAL REGNTERMS OF SERVICE + PRIVACY POLICY •  PRSDROP IN HOURS: TUESDAY- FRIDAY, 12-4PM332 HUDSON AVENUEALBANY, NY 12210MA: (518) 462-6138FAX: (518) DONATE
• THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER (LGBT)
• LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

Glennda Ttone joed New York Cy’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center as s first female Executive Director 2009. Prr to the WMC, Ttone was the Senr Director of Media Programs for the natnal Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD). In January 2016, the Commissn and The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center lnched a shared effort to te New Yorkers about the history and rights of the transgenr muny.

NYC Health + Hospals is mted to empowerg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer+ (LGBTQ+) New Yorkers to live their healthit liv possible.

DONATECONTACTSTATE EMPLOYEES VIA UNITED WAYLEGACY GIFTSPARTNER-IN-PRIDEDONATEVOLUNTEERBUSINESS ALLIANCEPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTWEEKLY GROUPSCOUNSELING + CASE MANAGEMENTPROGRAMSRESOURCESCALENDARIN THE PRESSPRIDE CENTER BY THE NUMBERSBOARD OF DIRECTORSPRI CENTER STAFFABOUTHOME© 2023 PRI CENTER OF THE CAPAL REGNTERMS OF SERVICE + PRIVACY POLICY •  PRSDROP IN HOURS: TUESDAY- FRIDAY, 12-4PM332 HUDSON AVENUEALBANY, NY 12210MA: (518) 462-6138FAX: (518) DONATE

Sce 1983, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center has served as a val support system for hundreds of thoands of people. By the time the Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center was tablished here 1983, the buildg had operated unr a number of different nam, the last beg the Food and Marime High School.

After rentg space here, the Center – sce renamed the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Communy Center – bought the cy-owned buildg 1984. Some signifint anizatns clu the Metropolan Communy Church of New York, here om 1983 to 1994; Men of All Colors Together (MACT; origally Black and Whe Men Together); Gay and Lbian Youth; the Lbian Swchboard; Digny/New York, a Catholic gay and lbian anizatn; Asian Lbians of the East Coast (ALOEC); Harvey Milk High School; South Asian Lbian and Gay Associatn (SALGA); Salsa Soul Sisters; and Senr Actn a Gay Environment (SAGE; now Servic & Advocy for GLBT Elrs), which met here for over 20 years. Other anizatns found at the Center were the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (now known as GLAAD) 1985; Other Countri 1986, a llective of Black gay male wrers named honor of Jam Baldw‘s Another Country (the group was the succsor to Blackheart Collective); Las Buenas Amigas 1987, a Lata lbian group; Queer Natn 1990; and the Lbian Avengers 1992.

The Coaln for Lbian and Gay Rights, a tenant, was the leadg muny anizatn to promote the gay rights bill, which was approved by the New York Cy Council 1986. Established 1983, the New York Cy Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center has grown to bee the largt LGBT multi-service anizatn on the East Coast and send largt LGBT muny center the world.

THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENR COMMUNY CENTER (LGBT)

MoreEstablished 1983, the New York Cy Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center has grown to bee the largt LGBT multi-service anizatn on the East Coast and send largt LGBT muny center the world. They also serve as an cubator for grassroots groups that meet here, and is the birthplace of anizatns such as the AIDS activist group ACT UP and the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the prcipal anizatn batg homophobia and stereotypg of gays the media. The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center (LGBT) is loted the Wt Village neighborhood of Manhattan.

Llie+Lohman Mm of Gay & Lbian Art. Via Llie+Lohman Mm of Gay & Lbian Art. This storeont at 99 Wooster Street was once the headquarters of the Gay Activist Alliance.

Its annual Gay Pri Sunday service is one of the church's biggt events of the year, and an timated third of s ngregatn reprents the LGBTQ muny.

LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART

Loted right across om Stonewall Inn ss the monument lled Gay Liberatn, signed by Gee Segal. The Parks Department says, "the rult is specific, evotive, and unrstated, showg the public fort and eedom to which the gay liberatn movement aspired.

Protts followg a police raid here June 1969 are seen by many as the begng of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. Juli' Bar is often nsired the olst gay bar  New York Cy. In 1966, members of the Mattache Society anized a prott at the bar agast an existg liquor law that prohibed the sale of alhol to disorrly groups, which (explibly) clud gay people.

That prott eventually led to the overturng of those laws, and is subsequently seen as a landmark moment towards tablishg other gay bars across the cy.